Daughter followed, pushed’: Union minister lodges harassment complaint in Maharashtra

Raksha Khadse’s complaint said that the incident occurred at Sant Muktai Yatra in Kothali village in Muktainagar on Friday night.

Union minister Raksha Khadse on Sunday filed an FIR alleging her daughter and her friends were harassed by a group of men at an event in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. Reacting to the complaint, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis claimed the accused belonged to a political party and the police arrested some of them. Khadse’s complaint said that the incident occurred at Sant Muktai Yatra in Kothali village in Muktainagar on Friday night.

“I was in Gujarat, so my daughter called me to ask for permission to go. I asked her to take a guard and two to three staff members along. My daughter and her friends were followed and pushed, and their photos and videos were taken. When my staff objected, the boys resorted to unruly behaviour, and a mob of 30 to 40 people gathered,” Khadse told PTI.

She said her daughter told her that the same group had misbehaved with her on February 24 at a public event.

“It is unfortunate. If such things happen to an MP or Union minister’s daughter, imagine what common people have to go through,” she said.